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Great mystery, with interesting characters and setting in southern New Mexico.

I'm enjoying this trip back in time to see a younger Bill Gastner in action. Just learned how he discovered the green chile burrito he loves at the Don Juan de Onate restaurant.

Welcome back to Posadas...Bill Gastner is undersheriff again and Estelle Reyes has just been hired. The novel is told by Gastner in first-person...different from the omniscient narrator in the rest of the series, but perhaps there's a reason for the change.

An amazing book! The ending always bring a smile to my face...perfectly tied together.

a book within a book and a mystery within a mystery

This book has also been adapted into a movie by Disney! Titled "The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffith" it stars Roddy McDowall, Karl Malden, and Suzanne Pleshette. Fun to watch with the class when this read aloud is finished!

This book is growing on me...the setting, in particular, is addictive.

A great book about the California gold rush!

The mystery is getting deeper...at last a return to modern England.

This is a mystery about the suffragette movement during Edwardian England. I wouldn't have thought such a novel possible.

Just getting to the mysterious part of this mystery.

This is an enjoyable book to read, but not really a good readaloud.

After adjusting to the writing style, this is turning out to be a very interesting read aloud book.

After adjusting to the writing style, this is turning out to be a very interesting read aloud book.

This book isn't what I expected...but that's become the hallmark of the Newbery-honored books.